Janus: The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

King's/PP/RCB contains:
V	Verse
D	Drama
Da	Dalton Bequest
P	Prose
L	Letters
M	Miscellaneous
Xa	Biographical and Supplementary Material
Xb	Reviews and Comment
Xc	Death and Burial
Xd	Poems, articles, etc. in memory of Rupert Brooke
Xe	Correspondence concerning Rupert Brooke's grave and memorials
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The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

Title	Verse
Reference	RCB/V
Covering Dates	1904–1950 (Some dates have been supplied or estimated.)
Extent and Medium	1 envelope and 8 volumes; paper

Content and context

This series consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Rupert Brooke. There are also a small number of cuttings from Brooke's published poems and a few miscelleaneous items related to his production of verse.

For provenance of items within this series, see individual files.

Many of the original manuscripts and typescripts have been bound into composite volumes.

Further information

Many of the items in this class were published in Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), 'The poetical works of Rupert Brooke' (London: Faber and Faber, 1946).

For further manuscript drafts of poetry by Rupert Brooke, see the items catalogued as RCB/L/2.

The full catalogue for the Rupert Brooke collection provides an index for bringing together scattered references to the different versions of Rupert Brooke's poems. The catalogue is available on the College web site, and in hard copy in the Archive Centre.

King's/PP/RCB/V contains:

Album of manuscript poems. An album of manuscript poems, arranged and bound by Edward Marsh during the 1920s. The contents of the album are as follows:. In the front of the volume are one autograph letter, signed, from Mary Ruth Brooke to F.L. Lucas, Librarian of King's College, on the disposition of the Rupert Brooke Papers dated 3 Aug. 1928; one typed letter, signed, from John Saltmarsh, Librarian of King's College, to Provost J.T. Sheppard enclosing a typescript list of Brooke manuscripts to be photographed and presented to the Library of Congress dated 7 Oct. 1939 and one autograph letter, signed from Geoffrey Keynes, Brooke Trustee, approving the gift dated 12 Oct. 1939. [f.1] Lascelles Abercrombie: 'Beautiful life! As air throngs in to find / The white heart of a fire and to be flame / ...' in ink. [f.2] Wilfred Wilson Gibson: THE GOING 'He's gone / I do not understand. / ...' in ink, initialled. [f.4] Photograph by Sherril Schell of Rupert Brooke's head in profile, Apr. 1913. [f.5] Photograph by Sherril Schell of Rupert Brooke head and shoulders, full face, Apr. 1913. [f.9] 1914 I. PEACE 'Now, God be thanked ...' in ink, on Hood Battalion paper. [f.10] [1914 II. SAFETY] 'Dear! of all happy in this hour ...' pencil draft. [f.11] 1914 II. SAFETY 'Dear! of all happy in the hour ...' in ink, on Hood Battalion paper. [f.12] 'The Slain' first pencil draft of 1914 III. THE DEAD 'Blow out, you bugles ...'. [f.13] 1914 III. THE DEAD 'Blow out, you bugles ...'. [f.14] 1914 IV. THE DEAD 'These hearts were woven of human joys ...' in ink, on Hood Battalion paper. [f.15] [1914 V. THE SOLDIER] 'If I should die ...' first pencil draft, on Hood Battalion paper. [f.16] 'The Recruit' 'If I should die ...' second pencil draft of IV. THE SOLDIER . [f.17] 1914 V. The Soldier 'If I should die ...'. [f.18] THE TREASURE 'When colour goes home ...' in ink, annotated at foot 'New Nos.'. [ff.19-21] TIARE TAHITI 'Mamua, when our laughter ends ...' Papeete, Feb. 1914, in ink. [ff.22-3] RETROSPECT 'In your arms was still delight ...' Mateia, Jan. 1914, in ink, on Hotel Vancouver paper. [ff.24-6] THE GREAT LOVER 'I have been so great a lover ...' Mateia, 1914, in ink. [f.28] DOUBTS 'When she sleeps, her soul, I know ...' in ink. [f.29] THERE'S WISDOM IN WOMEN 'Oh, love is fair ...' in ink. [f.30] HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE OR TO BLAME HER 'I have peace to weigh your worth ...' Makaweli, Kanai, Oct. 1913, in ink. [f.31] A MEMORY 'Somewhile before the dawn I rose ...' Waikiki, Oct. 1913, in ink. [f.32] ONE DAY 'Today I have been happy ...' the Pacific, Oct. 1913, in ink. [f.33] WAIKIKI 'Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree ...' first draft, in ink. [f.34] WAIKIKI 'Warm perfumes ...' Waikiki 1913, in ink. [f.35] [HAUNTINGS] 'Thus a poor ghost ...' first draft, stanzas inverted, in ink. [f.36] HAUNTINGS 'In the grey tumult of these after years ...' the Pacific, 1914 in ink. [f.37] [SONNET] 'Not with vain tears ...' in ink. [f.38] CLOUDS 'Down the blue night ...' the Pacific, Oct. 1913, in ink. [f.39] MUTABILITY 'They say there's a high windless world ...' South Kensington, Makaweli, 1913, in ink. [f.40] [THE BUSY HEART] 'Now that we've done our best and worst ...' in ink. [f.41] LOVE 'Love is a breach in the walls ...' in ink. [f.42] UNFORTUNATE 'Heart, you are restless ...' in ink. [f.43] THE CHILTERNS 'Your hands, my dear, adorable ...' in pencil with ink notes on back. [f.44] HOME 'I came back late ...' in ink. [ff.45-6] THE NIGHT JOURNEY 'Hands and lit faces ...' in pencil and ink. [f.48] BEAUTY AND BEAUTY 'When Beauty and Beauty meet ...' in ink. [f.49] [THE WAY THAT LOVERS USE] 'The way that lovers use is this ...' on autograph postcard, signed, from Rupert Brooke to Edward Marsh with note 'not good', p.m. 6 May 1913. [ff.50-1] [MARY AND GABRIEL] 'Young Mary loitering ...' in ink with a few lines in pencil. [ff.52-3] 'Youth's funeral' 'The day that youth had died ...' much corrected draft in pencil on both sides of sheet. [ff.54-5] THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY 'The day that youth had died ...' in ink, with editorial note by H. M[onro] in blue crayon. [ff.56-9] [THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER] much corrected draft in pencil, titled 'The sentimental exile'. [f.64] [SONNET] 'Oh! Death will find me ...' in ink. [f.65] [SONNET] 'I said I splendidly loved you ...' in ink. [f.66] [SUCCESS] 'I think, if you had loved me ...' in ink. [f.67] DUST 'When the white flame in us is gone ...'in ink, on both sides of National Liberal Club paper. [f.68] DUST 'When the white flame in us is gone ...'fair copy in ink. [ff.69-70] KINDLINESS 'When love has changed to kindliness ...' in pencil. [ff.71-2] MUMMIA 'As those of old drank mummia...' in pencil. [ff.73-5] THE FISH 'In a cool curving world he lies ...' in ink. [f.76] THOUGHTS ON THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN BODY 'How can we find ...' in ink. [ff.77-8] FLIGHT 'Voices out of the shade ...' in ink. [f.79] [THE HILL] 'Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill ...' in ink, titled 'Sonnet'. [f.80] THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST 'I dreamt I was in love again ...' in ink. [f.82] THE LIFE BEYOND 'He wakes, who never thought to wake again ...' in ink. [ff.83-5] LINES WRITTEN IN THE BELIEF THAT THE ANCIENT ROMAN FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD WAS CALLED AMBARVALIA 'Swings the way still by hollow and hill ...' in ink. [f.86] blank. [ff.87-8] TOWN AND COUNTRY 'Here where love's stuff is body ...' in ink . [f.89] PARALYSIS 'For moveless limbs no pity I crave ...' in ink. [ff.90-1] [MENELAUS AND HELEN] 'Hot through Troy's ruin ...' in pencil. [f.92] LUST 'How should I know ...' pencil draft with notes on back. [f.93] LUST retitled 'Libido' 'How should I know ...' fair copy in pencil. [ff.94-5] JEALOUSY 'When I see you, who were so wise and cool ...' in ink with two lines in pencil at end. [f.96] [BLUE EVENING] 'My restless blood now lies a-quiver ...' in ink. [f.97] [THE CHARM] 'In darkness the loud sea makes moan ...' in ink. [f.98] FINDING 'From the candles and dumb shadows ...' in ink. [f.99] SONG '"Oh! love" they said, "is King of Kings" ...' in ink. [f.100] [THE VOICE] 'Safe in the magic of my woods ...' pencil draft, titled 'To a voice. Love song'. [f.101] [THE VOICE] 'Safe in the magic of my woods ...' in ink, titled 'To a voice. Love poem'. [ff.102-4] DINING-ROOM TEA 'When you were there, and you, and you ...' in ink. [f.105] THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD 'In a flowered dell my lady Venus stood ...' in pencil. [f.106] [A CHANNEL PASSAGE] 'The damned ship lurched and slithered ...' in ink. [f.107] VICTORY 'All night the ways of Heaven ...' in ink. [f.108] DAY AND NIGHT 'Through my heart's palace ...' in ink. [f.109] DESERTION 'So light we were, so right we were ...' in ink. [ff.110-11] SECOND BEST 'Here in the dark, O heart ...' in ink. [f.113] SLEEPING OUT. FULL MOON 'They sleep within ...' incomplete, in ink. [f.114] [IN EXAMINATION] 'Lo! from quiet skies ...' draft in pencil. [f.115] IN EXAMINATION 'Lo! from quiet skies ...' in ink. [f.116] [PINE TREES AND THE SKY. EVENING] 'I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky ..' draft in pencil. [f.117] PINE TREES AND THE SKY. EVENING 'I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky ...' fair copy in ink. [f.118] WAGNER 'Creeps in half wanton, half asleep ...' in ink. [f.121] [ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET THE HIPPOPOTAMUS GODDESS] 'She was wrinkled and huge and hideous ...' in ink, titled 'Song of a tribe of ancient Egyptians on the death of the hippopotamus goddess '. [ff.122-3] THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS 'What a light of unremembered skies ...' in ink. [f.124] A SONG OF THE BEASTS 'Come away! Come away! ...' in ink. [f.125] FAILURE 'Because God put this adamantine fate ...' in ink. [f.126] ANTE ARAM 'Before thy shrine I kneel ...' in ink. [f.127] THE CALL 'Out of the nothingness of sleep ...' in ink. [f.128] DAWN 'Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat ...' in ink, with editorial note by W.W. Grundy on back. [f.128a] DAWN 'Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat ...' pencil draft inserted. [f.129] THE WAYFARERS 'Is it the hour ...' in ink. [f.130] [THE BEGINNING] 'Some day I shall rise and leave my friends ...' in ink. [f.131] SONNET. IN TIME OF REVOLT 'The thing must End ...' in ink.
1 volume; paper.

1906–1914

Album of manuscript poems. A group of poems, including some fragmentary jottings, formerly comprising the leaves of a notebook. These were taken down, arranged and mounted by Edward Marsh. The contents the volume are as follows:. [f.5] Front cover of notebook, signed by Rupert Brooke. [ff.10-11] DINING-ROOM TEA 'When you were there, and you, and you ...'. [ff.28-9] [KINDLINESS] 'When love has changed to kindliness ...' 2 incomplete drafts. [f.32] [A CHANNEL PASSAGE] 'The damned ship lurched and slithered ...'. [f.38] [THE CHARM] 'In the darkness the loud sea makes moan ...'. [f.46] PARALYSIS 'For moveless limbs no pity I crave ...'. [f.49] FLIGHT also titled 'The Tracker' and 'Pursuit' 'Voices out of the shade that cried ...'. [f.50] THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD 'In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood ...'. [f.52] [SONNET] 'O! Death will find me, long before I tire ...'. [f.54] [FINDING] 'From the candles and dumb shadows ...'. [ff.56-9] [LINES WRITTEN IN THE BELIEF THAT THE ANCIENT ROMAN FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD WAS CALLED AMBARVALIA] 'Swings the road still by hollow and hill ...'. [f.72] [WAGNER] 'Creeps in half wanton, half asleep ...'. [f.78] [THE HILL] 'Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill ...'. [f.79] [SUCCESS] 'I think if you had loved me when I wanted ...'. [f.80] [SONNET] 'I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true ...'. [ff.102-3] [THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST] 'I dreamt I was in love again ...'. [ff.104-6] THE FISH 'In a cool curving world he lies ...'. [f.107] [SONG] here titled 'Love' '"Oh Love" they said "is King of Kings ...' . [ff.109-10] THE LIFE BEYOND 'He wakes, who never thought to wake again ...'. [f.113] MUMMIA 'As those of old drank Mummia ...'. [f.118] JEALOUSLY 'When I see you, who were so wise and cool ...'. [f.122] [SONG] 'Oh! that apple bloom, and the pale spring sun ...'. [f.129] IN FREIBERG STATION 'In Freiburg Station, waiting for a train ...'. [f.135] THE DESCENT 'Because you called, I left the mountain height ...'. [f.145] SONNET REVERSED 'Hand trembling towards hand ...'. [f.146] Back cover of notebook.
1 volume; paper.

1907–1912

Manuscript of [1914 IV.] THE DEAD. An autograph manuscript poem beginning 'These hearts were woven of human joys and cares ...' This file also contains correspondence relating to the bequest of the poem.
6 items in hard cover; paper.

Poems and poetic criticism. A notebook of manuscript poems and poetic criticism, in pencil, with one loose sheet glued in. Contents are as follows, with fragmentary poems omitted: . [f.2] 'Lord, by the monk, the poor, the cripple sung ...' . [f.6] 'Somewhere beneath a strange pale sun ...'. [f.7] 'Invitation au Voyage' 'Then fare you well our brothers ...'. [f.9] 'I shall go out into the wet wood and the night afar ...'. [f.10] 'Is this not faith, behind each pretty act ...'. [f.11] 'Out of the crowds that loved you strongly ...'. [f.12] THE CALL 'Out of the nothingness of sleep ...'. [f.13] 'Who are these that hither tread ...'. [f.15] 'The Meeting' 'Your eyes are a black lake ...'. [f.16] 'Villanelle' 'The saddest of all human cries! ...'. [f.17] ['The Spectator'] 'Hate you? Ah, no! I've much to thank you for ...' (See also item V/12/5.). [f.19] 'Grey on green and the grey above her ...'. [f.20] THE WAYFARERS 'Is it the hour? We leave this resting place ...'. [f.21] 'God, who hath made my soul of fire ...'. [f.28] 'The grave and time defying ...'. [f.31] 'A Villanelle' 'Sleep ends and crowns our Carnival ...'. [f.32] 'I have forgotten quite ...'. [f.33] MY SONG 'They are unworthy, these sad whining moods ...'. [f.34] 'Ambition' 'When I am emperor of all the lands ...'. [f.36] 'The Song of the Beasts' 'Come away! Come away!'. [f.38] 'Absence' 'Beyond these pines the white lipped sea ...'. [f.39] 'O Gods who watch from high and windless places ...'. [f.41] 'Failure' 'So, having kissed the ghost of what could be, ...'. [ff.43, 45-6] [THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS] 'What light of unremembered skies ...' ...'. [f.47] 'Song of the shadows' 'Comes the night; and the praying human throng ...'. [f.48] 'Failure' 'So I've won to [sic] you, to lose you never ...'. [f.50] [ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS GODDESS] here titled 'Song of the Ancient Egyptians on the death of the hippopotamus Goddess' 'She was wrinkled, huge and hideous...'. [f.51] THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS here titled 'The Archangels' 'Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world ...'. [f.53] 'The Saint' 'I left the tomb where pilgrims prayed ...'. [f.56] 'Milan Cathedral: Interior' 'Voices without, and trams, and wheels ...'. From the other end:. [ff.ii-xlvi] Notes for a paper, 'Some aspects of modern poetry', referring to the 'Decadent Poets', Ernest Dowson, A.E. Housman, W.E. Henley, William Watson, A.E., W.B. Yeats, G.K. Chesterton and Rudyard Kipling. An early draft of the paper delivered to 'Eranos' at Rugby, July 1906 (cf. P/3).
1 notebook; paper.

1904–1907

Poems. Several manuscript poems at some point brought together and given a single file reference. The items in V5, however, no longer exist as a discrete physical entity, but have been guarded and filed with other loose poems. For reference purposes only, each item has been given a distinct reference number, but all items within V5 will be produced upon request of any item within the file. The items in V5 are listed below with their reference numbers. All items are in pencil except V/5/7, V/5/9 and V/5/10. V/5/1 'Stanzas written on Battersea Bridge during the prevalence of the late south westerly gale' 'The woods and downs have caught the mid December ...'. V/5/2 'The Rebel' 'There is a wall of which the stones ...'; 'The Angevin' 'When I was flying before the King ...'. V/5/3 'Song in praise of cremation' 'Some day Death's voice will sound for me ...'. V/5/4 'The Coronation' 'The adoring shouting multitudes depart ...'. V/5/5 'Ah radiant! you slipped from us ...'. V/5/6 'Come back across the dark, forgotten kings ...'. V/5/7 'Ecclesiastical sonnets. No.I' 'Two orders are there, one of the machine ...' initialled RB and FWA at foot. V/5/8 'Ballade of middle age' 'The young men strut and squeak and roar ...'. V/5/9 ARTISTIC 'The blossom on the trees ...'. V/5/10 THE YOUNG MAN IN APRIL here titled 'The Dear I've yet to meet' 'In the queer light, in twilight ...' . V/5/11 'Comrades, to arms! See the lightnings are flashing ...'. V/5/12 'Thee, blue amorph, I sing, I sing ...'. V/5/13 THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH 'They said to the philosopher ...'. V/5/14 'Old books' 'The dead men that wrote long ago ...'. V/5/15 'The double flame. To a dead priestess' 'We watched you pray and pass, unknowing ...'. V/5/16 'A bower of roses I had made ...'.
16 sheets in volume; paper.

1913

'Calypso' and 'Sohrab and Rustam' (a Latin translation). Two poems in the hand of Edward Marsh, in ink, found among Rupert Brooke's school reports. These begin 'Forgive me, Goddess! the wild heart of man ...' and 'Dixerat: ille autem turpi se ex pulvere totus...'.
1 sheet in melanex sleeve; paper.

Fragmentary poems and verse jottings. Manuscript fragments in pencil and ink, including 'Lo! when we turn irrevocable feet ...' and 'There is an evil which that race attaints ...'.
26 sheets and 1 envelope in melanex sleeves; paper.

Poems and jottings. Manuscript poems and jottings at some point brought together and given a single file reference. The items in V7, however, no longer exist as a discrete physical entity, but have been guarded and filed with other loose poems. For reference purposes only, each item has been given a distinct reference number, but all items within V7 will be produced upon request of any item within the file. Items are:. V/7/1 'Hymn of praise' 'Lord, bless us living, bless us dying ...'. V/7/2 'Sausages in winter term ACB loquitur' 'Twilight and evening bell ...'. V/7/3 'Not our [sic] to rashly question of thy state ...'. V/7/4 'Life at your feet, most Holy Being, lies ...'. V/7/5 Assorted fragments. V/7/6 Two verses of multiple authorship, with lines in the hands of Rupert Brooke, J.M. Keynes, Ferenc Békássy (Bekassy) and Noel Olivier, among others.
6 sheets in Melinex sleeves; paper.

EVENING. Manuscript poem beginning 'Lo! now, the splendour of the sun setting! ...', with correspondence relating to its provenance dated 1967.
7 sheets in melanex sleeves; paper.

1906

[SONG], here titled 'Spring'. Manuscript poem beginning 'All suddenly the wind comes soft ...', with a note on Swinburne.
2 sheets in melanex sleeves; paper.

1912

'The sad story of Professor Montagu'. Manuscript poem beginning '"What was his story?" "Then you never heard?"...'. Annotated at the head with 'Typewriter ballad from J[ames] B[eaumont] S[trachey]'.
1 sheet in melanex sleeve; paper.

List of rhyming words and a poem. A manuscript list of words rhyming with 'void', with the note 'I am much emptier than all these'. This file also includes a manuscript poem beginning 'My first was in the night at 1 ...'.
2 sheets in melanex sleeves; paper.

Mar. 1915-Apr. 1915

Poems. Nine typescript poems, several annotated and dated by Edward Marsh and Geoffrey Keynes. At some point the poems were brought together and given a single file reference. The items in V12, however, no longer exist as a discrete physical entity, but have been guarded and filed with other loose poems. For reference purposes only, each item has been given a distinct reference number, but all items within V12 will be produced upon request of any item within the file. The poems in V12 are:. V/12/1 Afterwards 'O brother, dost thou know what this thing means, to dread ...'. V/12/2 'There are no setting suns in Heaven ...'. V/12/3 The path of dreams 'Go, heart, and pluck beside the Path of Dreams ...'. V/12/4 Sorrow 'I whispered to my sorrow, "Come! Let us go hence ...'. V/12/5 'The Spectator' 'Hate you? Ah, no! I've much to thank you for ...'. V/12/6 'Absence' 'Beyond those pines the white-lipped sea ...'. V/12/7 Your eyes 'Your eyes are a black lake ...' [published in Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine Vol.LXIV, No.320, Dec. 1919, pp.230-1]. V/12/8-9 'The Farewell' 'Then - fare you well, our brothers ...' [second page mutilated; explanatory note by Edward Marsh]. V/12/10 'A Saint' 'I left the tomb where pilgrims prayed ...'.
10 sheets in melanex sleeves; paper.

1904–1907

Transcripts of poetry fragments. Manuscript transcripts by Edward Marsh, [c.1916], of poetry fragments by Rupert Brooke. The transcripts have been annotated 'This book is an exact copy of the notebook in which Rupert Brooke wrote between Feb. 28 1915 when he left England, and his death on April 23rd 1915. It came to England with his other things on July 16th E. Marsh'. The fragments include:. [f.2] 'They say Achilles in the darkness stirred ...'. [f.3] 'The poor scrap of a song that some men tried ...'. [f.5] '"When Nobby tried" the stokers [alt. soldiers] say ...'. [f.8] 'All things are written in the mind ...'. [f.12] 'The firm limbs are no more: gone back to earth ...'. [f.15] THE DANCE 'As the wind and as the wind ...'. [f.16] DAWN. LEMNOS 'The hour invisible colour's sun ...'. [f.18] [FRAGMENT] 'I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight ...'. [f.19] 'She of our songs and praise ...'.
1 notebook; paper.

1915

13A

Fragment of 'One fooled into paradise...'. Manuscript fragment of poem 'One fooled into paradise ...'.
1 sheet in melanex sleeve; paper.

Feb. 1915-April 1915

Transcripts of poems. Manuscript transcripts by Edward Marsh, [c.1916], of poems and a prose piece by Rupert Brooke, with notes by Edward Marsh as to the original papers, letters and notebooks from which material was copied. The contents comprise:. [ff.2-4] 'The reward' prose piece. [ff.4-5] GOD GIVE 'God give that through the labour of my day ...'. [ff.6-7] 'Hymn 666 (The stockbrokers' book of hymns, revised and augmented)' 'Lord, on this calm and holy day ...'. [f.8] IT IS WELL 'Nay, love, I weep not, but laugh o'er my dead ...'. [f.9] IN JANUARY 'What shall I tell thee of? ...'. [f.10] 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'. [f.11] 'Only the slow rain falling ...'. [f.12] DEDICATION 'When I laid my head upon the breast ...'. [f.13] FRAGMENT ON PAINTERS] 'There is an evil which that Race attaints ...'. [f.14] Fragments. [f.15] SONG 'The way of Love was thus ...'. [f.16] 'Even as some hurried invalid would pass water ...'; 'And she will pull you into her ...'. [f.17] [IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN] 'I have known the most dear that is granted us here ...'. [f.18] [THE PINK AND LILY] 'Never came there to the Pink ...' . [f.19] 'Old Books or, the extraordinary discrepancies between the professions in the practice of the dead' 'The dead men that wrote long ago ...'. [ff.20-1] 'Ballade of middle age' 'The young men strut and squeak and roar ...'. [ff.22-4] SOMETIMES EVEN NOW ... 'Sometimes even now I may ...'. [f.25] THE TRUE BEATITUDE 'They say, when the Great Prompter's hand shall ring ...'. [ff.26-7] 'Poor Ka you see sit down with many a moan ...'. [f.27] 'He needs no wife ...'. [f.28] 'Lo! when we turn irrevocable feet ...'; 'Prince, you have suffered. I have suffered. Shake ...'. [f.29] TRAVEL ''Twas when I was in Neu Strelitz ...'. [ff.30-1] 'Asleep once in Love's tiny jewelled boat ...'; 'From the old French of Jehan de Borival. Of a town in the Marches' 'I looked at him with never a word ...'; 'Ah would I were in Bavarie ...'*. [f.32] IN FREIBURG STATION 'In Freiburg Station, waiting for a train ...'. [f.33] 'No, but because I loved you, when love slips ...'; fragments. [f.34] THE DESCENT 'Because you called, I left the mountain height ...'. [f.35] SONNET REVERSED 'Hand trembling toward hand; the amazing lights ...'. [ff.36-7] fragments. [f.38] SONG 'Oh! that apple bloom, and the pale spring sun ...'. [f.39] 'Suppose my friend there lived within a garden ...'; 'God give me joy of life ...' . [f.40] COLLOQUIAL 'It was not that you said I thought you knew ...'. [f.41] 'Bouts-rimés' 'They say Menalcas, being indigenous ...'. [f.42] 'For forty years he has taught Greek ...'. [f.43] 'Fly swallowing' 'In a splendid meadow of high July ...'. [f.44] fragments. [f.45] 'In the end' 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'. [f.87] 'The beds of silver quiet grow ...'. *includes lines by Frances Cornford.
1 volume; paper.

1904–1915

Transcripts of poems. Typescript transcripts, each with 2 carbons, of poems written out by Edward Marsh with the following alterations:. - 'In the end' 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...' has been omitted. - 'Ballade to J[ames] B[eaumont] S[trachey]' 'Boys, mine is not a pleasant task today ...' has been included. - A manuscript transcript 'Asleep once in Love's tiny jewelled boat ...' has been included.
85 sheets in folder; paper.

1950–1959 1950

Transcripts of poems at Rugby School. Typescript transcripts by Mr. Kiltermaster, made c.1954, of six manuscript poems in Temple Library, Rugby School. This file also includes a covering autograph letter, signed, from James Hunt to Geoffrey Keynes dated 15 Jan. 1954; an extract from a bookseller's catalogue dating the poem 'In the end' and a covering autograph letter, signed from Geoffrey Keynes to Peter Croft, Librarian of King's College, dated 12 Nov. [1980]. Items in the file comprise:-. - 'The farewell' 'Then, fare you well, our brothers ...'. - 'In the end' 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'. - 'The Spectator' 'Hate you? Ah, no! I've much to thank you for ...'. - 'Absence' 'Beyond those pines the white-lipped sea ...'. - YOUR EYES 'Your eyes are a black lake ...' ]. - 'A saint' 'I left the tomb where pilgrims prayed ...'.
8 sheets in folder; paper.

1904–1907

Typescript poems. Typescript poems, several with carbon copies, manuscript annotations and Rupert Brooke's signature. These have also been annotated by Edward Marsh and A.N.L. Munby, Librarian of King's College. The items have been arranged into three gatherings, but these cannot be produced separately. The following gathering numbers, then, are for reference purposes only. The gatherings include:. 1. THE PATH OF DREAMS 'Go, heart, and pluck beside the Path of Dreams ...' . SLEEPING OUT: FULL MOON 'They sleep within ...' . SORROW 'I whispered to my sorrow, "Come! Let us go hence ...' . THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS 'Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world ...' . MAN 'Time drew towards its ending: everywhere ...'. THE EARTH 'Our Mother the Earth is weary; overhead ...' . AUGUST 'Weary of summer heat ...' . THE DAWN 'When on my night of life the Dawn shall break ...'. THE CALL 'Out of the nothingness of sleep ...' . TO THEM THAT DREAM 'O Brothers, we are Comrades on the way ...' . [THE BEGINNING] 'Some day I shall rise and leave my friends ...' Failure 'Because God put His adamantine fate ...' . ANTE ARAM 'Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper ...' . SECOND BEST 'Here in the dark, O heart ...'. THE JOLLY COMPANY 'The stars, a jolly company ...' . THE VOICE 'Safe in the magic of my woods ...' . THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS 'What light of unremembered skies ...' . VANITAS 'Laugh now and live! Our blood is young, our hearts are high ...' . THE RETURN 'Long had I dwelt in dreams and loneliness ...' Afterwards 'O brother, dost thou know what this thing means, to dread ...' . THE SONG OF THE BEASTS 'Come away! Come away! ...' . IN EXAMINATION 'Lo! from quiet skies ...' . DAY THAT I HAVE LOVED 'Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes ...' . BLUE EVENING 'My restless blood now lies a -quiver ...' . FINDING 'From the candles and dumb shadows ...' . EVENING 'Lo now, the splendour of sun-setting! ...' . THE WAYFARERS 'Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place ...' . [ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS GODDESS] here titled 'Song of a tribe of the Ancient Egyptians on the death of the hippopotamus-goddess' 'She was wrinkled and huge and hideous ...'. 2. 'The priestess' 'We watched you pray and pass unknowing ...' 'The farewell' 'Then - fare you well, our brothers ...' . 'A saint' 'I left the tomb where pilgrims prayed ...'. [YOUR EYES] 'Your eyes are a black lake ...' . 'I wonder, if you too somewhere afar ...' . 'Sonnet appassionata' 'Do not remember me, heart of my heart ...' . 'Triolet' 'If you would only have a son ...'. 3. 'The Voice' 'With festering hearts that yearn for shadowy night ...' a parody by A.Y. C[ampbell], [Sept. 1909].
58 sheets in three gatherings within folder; paper.

'An Englishman's lunch. A simple ballad. A true story'. Typescript poem, with two carbon copies, beginning 'In the chief room of an hotel ...'.
5 sheets in folder; paper.

Mar. 1909

Poems first published in Cambridge Review. Transcripts and cuttings of poems first published in Cambridge Review. At some point, these items were brought together and given a single file reference. The items in V19, however, no longer exist as a discrete physical entity, but have been guarded and filed with other loose poems. For reference purposes only, each item has been given a distinct reference number, but all items within V19 will be produced upon request of any item within the file. This file includes:. a. SONNET: IN THE TIME OF REVOLT 'The thing must End. I am no boy! I am ...' Typescript transcript and cutting. b. [THE YOUNG MAN IN APRIL] here titled 'The Dear I've yet to meet' 'In the queer light, in twilight ...' Manuscript transcript by Edward Marsh.
3 sheets in melanex sleeves; paper.

1908–1913

Poems from the Westminster Gazette. Poems first published in the Westminster Gazette and Saturday Westminster Gazette. At some point, these items were brought together and given a single file reference. The items in V20, however, no longer exist as a discrete physical entity, but have been guarded and filed with other loose poems. For reference purposes only, each item has been given a distinct reference number, but all items within V20 will be produced upon request of any item within the file. These items include:. a. SICILIAN OCTAVE 'An evil time came down with fateful feet ...' signed 'Sandro', manuscript transcript by Edward Marsh [22 July 1905, p.6] . b. LATE AT NIGHT 'Is that a knock at my forgotten door? ...'; LATE AT NIGHT 'Did someone knock at my unvisited pane? ...' both signed Mnemon, cuttings [24 Feb. 1908, p.6]. c. THE JOLLY COMPANY 'The stars, a jolly company ...' 2 cuttings, with pencil marks [28 Nov. 1908, p.6]. d. THE GREY NOMINALIST 'Ah! yesteryear's Christ-tide ...' signed P.R.B., cutting [16 Jan. 1909, p.6]. e. A LETTER TO A LIVE POET 'Sir, since the last Elizabethan died ...' signed Münchener, cutting and typescript with two carbon copies [4 Feb. 1911]. f. THE CHILDREN OF THE MOON 'We are the mazed fantastic throng. You smile ...'; THE TRAMP 'I was not looking for you. I trudged on ...' (both translations from H.C. Spiess 'Chansons captives') signed Münchener, manuscript transcripts by Edward Marsh [11 Mar. 1911]. g. 'O brother, dost though know what this thing means, to dread ...' cutting; typescript extracts from Westminster Gazette setting terms of poetry competitions, 22 June-20 July 1907.
17 items in melanex sleeves; paper.

1905–1911

20A

Poems from the Poetry Review. Poems first published in Poetry Review. The file is comprised of: SONG 'All suddenly the wind comes soft ...'; MARY AND GABRIELl 'Young Mary, loitering once her garden way ...'; BEAUTY AND BEAUTY 'When Beauty and Beauty meet ...'; UNFORTUNATE 'Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap ...'; and THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER 'Just now the lilac is in bloom ...'.
1 issue in envelope; paper.

1912

Page proofs of 1914 AND OTHER POEMS. Consists of page proofs, emended by Edward Marsh.
1 booklet in folder; paper.

1915

Photograph of THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER. Photograph of manuscript poem [THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER] here titled 'The sentimental exile', 'Just now the lilac is in bloom ...'.
4 sheets in folder; photographic print.

1912